tonyt
Re:Scientists' proposed calendar synchronizes dates with days
on Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:54PM (#3406517)
>Now, moving to a single worldwide time standard (just use UTC for everyone for everyday use) seems to make a little more sense. While I understand the desire to make the hours line up with the solar day in a reasonably uniform way around the world, timezones (and daylight savings time) are an ugly hack that add a lot of cost and give you only a very rough approximation of what you are trying to achieve.
This is the part that makes the least sense to me - I could buy the rest until then, but after that it starts to read like some sort of elaborate joke.
Re:How the R-project is taking over statistical analysis software
on Sunday October 23, 2011 @03:32AM (#3145495)
It can't be that bad, Oracle are shipping it in their new Big Data Appliance.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/oracles-big-data-appliance....
It's probably more an issue of easily pre-filtering/aggregating the data before analysing it with R. I like this approach of moving the calculation to the data, but we must be very late on the adoption curve if Oracle are doing it already.